{"id":723543,"date":"2021-09-06T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=723543"},"modified":"2021-09-06T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T17:36:07","slug":"fairfax-county-shells-out-32-7-million-in-bonuses-to-extraordinary-teachers-who-worked-from-home-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fairfax-county-shells-out-32-7-million-in-bonuses-to-extraordinary-teachers-who-worked-from-home-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairfax County Shells Out $32.7 Million In Bonuses To \u2018Extraordinary\u2019 Teachers Who Worked From Home Amid Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffairfax-county-shells-out-32-7-million-in-bonuses-to-extraordinary-teachers-who-worked-from-home-amid-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=723543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Remote-Learning.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Virginia\u2019s largest school district shelled out $32.7 million in bonuses to teachers for their \u201cextraordinary contributions and sacrifices\u201d during the COVID-19 pandemic, though teachers in the district worked almost exclusively from home.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/fairfax-teachers-win-32-7-million-bonus-for-extraordinary-work-during-pandemic\/\"><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/a><span>, school board member Ricardy Anderson announced that Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) district would use its federal COVID-19 relief funds to pay teachers, bus drivers, and other staff for their \u201cextraordinary\u201d work during the pandemic.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>FCPS teachers never returned to full in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year. The district\u2019s top unions successfully lobbied to keep schools closed and children at home for much of the school year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Fairfax County Federation of Teachers demanded that educators remain online during the 2020-2021 school year. It also demanded that the district implement \u201cproactive school closures\u201d for the ongoing 2021-2022 school year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Similarly, the Fairfax Education Association (FEA) president Kimberly Adams <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/virginia-teachers-union-students-must-be-vaccinated-before-schools-reopen\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> that students must receive the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to full-time, in-person instruction. Adams made these comments before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the COVID-19 vaccine for those age 12 and older.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe timeline and return to in-person instruction must reflect that we wait for the second dose to be effective,\u201d Adams said. \u201cConcerns also remain that students will not be vaccinated before they return to school. This will require that we maintain the hybrid model and continue social distancing, masking, and all other mitigation strategies.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dee O\u2019Neal, a Fairfax County parent who operates the \u201cOpen FCPS Coalition,\u201d told the Free Beacon that she doesn\u2019t believe that most teachers deserve these bonuses.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe union members who pushed to stay home are not deserving of this bonus.\u201d Bonuses are only appropriate for teachers \u201cwhose voices were drowned out by the lazy a**es who wanted to stay home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the Free Beacon\u2019s reporting, FCPS approved the district\u2019s plan to spend $188.6 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds, including the one-time bonuses for teachers. The money will also be spent to fund viral mitigation strategies and address \u201cpandemic-related learning loss[es].\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The district\u2019s relief funds will also increase bus driver wages to $22.91 per hour.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>FCPS has been at the forefront of controversy over the past year after parent groups began exposing the district\u2019s push for critical race theory. Per The Daily Wire\u2019s reporting, the district sent a PowerPoint to teachers explaining how to explicitly implement Critical Race Theory in the classroom.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The PowerPoint defined Critical Race Theory, among other progressive ideologies, and explained how to implement the ideologies in the classroom. Examples included \u201cculturally relevant pedagogy,\u201d \u201cinstitutional\/systemic racism,\u201d \u201canti-racism education,\u201d \u201canti-hate education,\u201d and more.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn adopting this approach, [Critical Race Theory] scholars attempt to understand how victims of systemic racism are affected by cultural perceptions of race and how they are able to represent themselves to counter prejudice,\u201d the PowerPoint reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Under the \u201capplication\/example\u201d portion of the slide, educators were told that Critical Race Theory is a helpful tool for analyzing issues such as \u201cschool funding, segregation, language policies, discipline policies, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and accountability policies.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fairfax-school-district-sends-educators-powerpoint-on-how-to-implement-critical-race-theory-in-the-classroom\"><b>Fairfax School District Sends Educators PowerPoint On How To Implement Critical Race Theory In The Classroom<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia\u2019s largest school district shelled out $32.7 million in bonuses to teachers for their \u201cextraordinary contributions and sacrifices\u201d during the COVID-19 pandemic, though teachers in the district worked almost exclusively &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}